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Artificial intelligence (AI) is creating an unprecedented demand for faster and more efficient memory, and SanDisk Corporation (SNDK) has just taken a major step toward addressing that challenge. In partnership with SK hynix (SKHY), the company unveiled the industry’s first High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) standard, a next-generation memory technology. It is designed to bridge the performance gap between high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and traditional solid-state drives (SSDs), offering bandwidth ranging from 0.4 TB/s to 3.0 TB/s and capacities of up to 512 GB.
The standard adopts the industry-standard UCIe interface, enabling compatibility with GPUs and CPUs, and includes specifications for packaging, reliability, and software I/O. The companies plan to accelerate HBF adoption through its consortium with Alphabet (GOOG) (GOOGL), and Tenstorrent.
